Fleshing out surfaces : skin in French art and medicine, 1650-1850 / Mechthild Fend.
'Fleshing out surfaces' is the first English-language book on skin and flesh tones in art. It considers flesh and skin in art theory, image making and medical discourse in seventeenth to nineteenth-century France. Describing a gradual shift between the early modern and the modern period, i...
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2017.
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| Series: | Rethinking art's histories.
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Table of Contents:
- The surface's substance
- Nervous canvas
- Sensitive limit
- Skin colour
- Seeing through the skin
- Hermetic borderline
- Epilogue : segregagtion.